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Poppy Day

British  

noun

  1. an informal name for Remembrance Sunday

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London Poppy Day aims to raise £1m in a day and up to 2,000 personnel, veterans and volunteers were planning to fundraise across the capital.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2022

In 2017, Congress approved legislation officially marking the Friday before Memorial Day as National Poppy Day.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2019

Some of the families of those killed in the Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb want the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland to intervene in a row over a memorial.

From BBC • May 8, 2018

Two years later he sang the Bee Gees hit I've Gotta Get A Message To You with a group of soldiers in support of the Poppy Day appeal.

From BBC • May 20, 2012

Poppy Day – Siouxsie and the Banshees A war poem/dispatch from the underworld.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2010